The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Selections in Translation (Phoenix Books)

Cassirer, Ernst

Kristeller, Paul Oskar & Randall, John Herman, Jr. (Editors)

University of Chicago Press

This provocative volume, one of the most important interpretive works on the philosophical thought of the Renaissance, has long been regarded as a classic in its field. Ernst Cassirer here examines the changes brewing in the early stages of the Renaissance, tracing the interdependence of philosophy, language, art, and science; the newfound recognition of individual consciousness; and the great thinkers of the period—from da Vinci and Galileo to Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy discusses the importance of fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Cusanus, the concepts of freedom and necessity, and the subject-object problem in Renaissance thought. “This fluent translation of a scholarly and penetrating original leaves little impression of an attempt to show that a ‘spirit of the age’ or ‘spiritual essence of the time’ unifies and expresses itself in all aspects of society or culture.”—Philosophy

The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

Religion & Spirituality

For almost two centuries the philosophy of Rousseau has perplexed its interpreters. The majority of his critics claimed to have found the "essence of Rousseau" in one or the other of his major works or in some of his scintillating epigrams, and therefore attacked him either for extreme views of individualism or collectivism, or for his alleged inconsistencies. His disciples contradicted each other as vigorously as his opponents; the Jacobins established the Reign of Terror in his name, the German romantics hailed him as a liberator, and Schiller pictured him as a martyr to wisdom. Ernst Cassirer's celebrated essay, "Das Problem Jean-Jacques Rousseau," accepts Rousseau's own contention of the integrity of his thought, and attempts to reveal its meaning by providing an understanding of his work as a whole. Cassirer achieves this by an empathic recreation of the "philosophical world" of Rousseau, a re-examination of his work in the light of his complex personality and of the age in which he lived. He illuminates the relation of Rousseau's fundamental conceptions to one another and to the rest of his thought - the relation of actual to potential reason, of perfectibility to the demand for a new society, of education to rationality, and of reason to freedom. "If the portrayal of Rousseau the emotional, self-contradictory totalitarian has generally given way to a more accurate estimate," states Peter Gay, "Cassirer's essay may claim a large share of the credit." (from the back cover)

Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (A Midland Book)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Midland Book

One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements. An Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind. 
What the thinkers of the past have thought of the human race, what can be said of its art, language, and capacities for good and evil in the light of modern knowledge are discussed by a great philosopher who had a profound experience of the past and of his own time.
“Ernst Cassirer…had a long standing international reputation in philosophy…. This suggestive volume now makes available the substance of his point of view.” --Irwin Edman, New York Herald Tribune
“The best and most mature expression of his thought.”—Journal of Philosophy

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Yale University Press

Translated by Clarence Smith Howe . 8vo pp. XX + 218 Brossura (wrappers) Molto Buono (Very Good)

The Logic of the Humanities.

Yale Univ Pr

A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day, and reveals how the myth of the state evolved from primitive times to prepare the way for the rise of the modern totalitarian state. "A brilliant survey of some of the major texts in the history of political theory."—Kenneth Burke, The Nation.

The Myth of the State

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science―the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. “These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer’s other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction. It is rather as if ‘The Golden Bough’ had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms.”―F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science—the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. “These three volumes alone (apart from Cassirer’s other papers and books) make an outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction. It is rather as if ‘The Golden Bough’ had been written in philosophical rather than in historical terms.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Vol. 2: Mythical Thought

One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements. An Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind.What the thinkers of the past have thought of the human race, what can be said of its art, language, and capacities for good and evil in the light of modern knowledge are discussed by a great philosopher who had a profound experience of the past and of his own time.

An Essay on Man; an Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Culture

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (v. 3)

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